Where Does the Stigma Against ADHD Come From?
The Neurodiverging Podcast
How to Identify ADHD in History
Inattention or different attention, hyperactivity or excessive activity and impulsivity are the traits that most professionals use to diagnose ADHD. When you look at those specific traits you can find a history of children and adults with probable ADHD diagnosed under different terminology. It looks like ADHD appeared out of nowhere in the 1980s but it was not called ADHD before the 1980s. Here is an incomplete list of other names for what we now call ADHD throughout Western history.
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